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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Rene 'Lynx' Pfeiffer wrote :
> Yesterday I tried to upgrade from SYMPA 2.4 to SYMPA 2.5.2. I followed the 
> steps
> described on the home page that explain how to do the upgrade. After 
> upgrading I
> found SYMPA not reacting to commands and not forwarding anything to any 
> list.
> 
> I checked the 'queue' program with strace and found that apparently it stops
> when doing the file open in
> 
>   [...]
>   sprintf(qfile, "T.%s.%ld.%d", listname, time(NULL), getpid());
>   fd = open(qfile, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY, 0600);
>   [...]
> 
> I checked the permissions of the spool directory /var/lib/sympa/spool/ and 
> found
> it unchanged (0755). Nevertheless I didn't get it to work. Today I changed 
> the
> permissions to
> 
> drwxrwxr-x   7 sympa    mlist        4096 Dec 27 17:07 spool
> 
> and put the user 'mail' into the group mlist. Now the 'queue' program runs 
> fine
> but I get bad message entries with filenames such as 
> "BAD-sympa.952049080.5209".

"Queue" program need to run as sympa and therefore requires the Set-UID bit.
I guess did not install Sympa with root privileges and could not set the 
proper
rights on "queue" program. 

"queue" running as bin.mail could not write in the spool.

Re-install Sympa with root privileges. You should then restore 755 right 
on the spool/msg/ directory.


Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseaux des Universites